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[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

"Ataturk : An Intellectual Biography" by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, (p. 38), 2011.
[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.